How do you get to Ghana?

In my experience this involved a lot of delays and waiting in various lines and closed airports. I arrived at the Austin airport at 3:30 in the morning, before the newspapers. I had to wait for the airport to open. The first flight went well and I made it to Atlanta where I met some students from Utah traveling to Ghana as well. We traveled to New York together, where I met up with two fellow classmates (Jacquelyn and Naa). We boarded the plane a little late (around 5pm) but we were reassured we could make up the time in the air. While we were in line to take off we were informed that we had some mechanical problems which had to be checked out. It turned out that it would take a long time to fix the problem so they were going to get us another plane. We had to get a new cockpit crew so we waited… After waiting a few hours we were informed that we had another plane and were just waiting for the final pilot who was on his way. When that pilot arrived there was clapping and everyone was ready to be on their way. The flight and cockpit crew boarded the plane and we were all ready to go. Then, without any announcement the flight departure time was changed from 11:30pm to 8:00am. This was surely a mistake we thought…
People were angry and we were uncertain what was happening. Some passengers had been delayed the day before due to volcanic ash over Europe, so this was even worse for them. Finally after about 10minutes a Delta employee informed we had to go to another gate to arrange our accommodations. Nobody was happy about the prospect of yet another line and more delays!! It took a while to make the hotel arrangements and get to the hotel. The bus we took there was probably the most comfortable we had been the entire day. When we got to the hotel we had the honor of waiting in yet another line… By the time got into our 1 star room it was about 2am and we had to leave the hotel around 5am. So we took showers and my friends slept while I watched a film. We all discussed staying up so we wouldn’t miss our flight but they quickly gave into their tired bodies. I was too nervous to sleep. Naa woke up around 4:30 (after jumping out of the bed numerous times to look out the window to make sure the hotel van wasn’t leaving us) so I got a little power nap. At 5am we got a knock on the door telling us the phone wasn’t working and his was our wakeup call. We made it to the airport with plenty of time to spare.
All in all this experience was rough but we also bonded with our fellow passengers and had some laughs, probably due to the deliria that kicked in around midnight. This was our first taste of Ghana. We got to see so many mothers wrapping the babies on their backs and the generally good natured temperament of the Ghanaian people.
When we arrived at the airport in Ghana we were greeted by Kwame (our Program Liason who is from Ghana) and were glad to have all of our luggage. Dr Gilbert met us at the airport and took us to the hostel.

More to come on my first impressions soon, along with some pictures.